Priscilla Presley's marriage to the most famous man of her era is the subject of Sofia Coppola's measured film.
A smitten rock star rescuing you from your pedestrian teenage life is such a powerful, enduring fantasy that popular fanfiction aboutdoing just that was recently adapted into a hit film series. What a ludicrous, naive dream, one largely never realized in the real world. Though, of course, there was, who was all of 14 years old when she was ushered into Elvis Presley’s inner circle and soon became the main object of his affection, and eventually his wife.
Elvis endears himself to Priscilla by showing his sensitive side, relating to her his homesickness and his grief over his late mother. Is this an act of grooming?does not really editorialize on that, instead calmly showing true events as they happened and letting the audience make assessments. As Elvis,—carefully calibrates Elvis’s appeal and his pill-addled, domineering presence, his exacting demands and storms of frightening anger.
Spaeny lucidly delineates Priscilla’s mounting struggle for independence, her disillusionment complicated, still, by real love. She and Coppola choose stillness and quiet over flourish, crafting a portrait in gentle tones. Coppola’s aesthetics are immaculate but not fussy, there are no outsized gestures toward the curious customs of the time. Even Elvis’s style evolution, from clean cut crooner to jumpsuit-wearing oddity, is presented plainly, without wink or affect.
If there is fault to be found, it may be in the film’s air of passivity, the sense that Priscilla is adrift on currents entirely slowed and quickened by the whims of another person. But sometimes young love, or whatever this was, can feel like that: lost in the sweep of devotion, carried away from one’s former self. In the case of Priscilla, that self was barely formed when Elvis came calling .
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